Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-04-01
NATIONAL NEW s.

IL is COMPATIBILITY denied that theTongue
River indians in Montana are starving.
The new Catholic university at Wash.
ington has received the Pope's indorse
ment.
The Ohio legislature adjourned sine die
on the 22d inst as did the Missouri legs-
lature.
The fremont hotel in Wabash, Ind, was
destroyed by fire the other day. Loss
s25 600.
The druggists of Crawford county, have
decided 70 keep no liquors in future for
any purpose.
Judge Cooley holds that under the new
law railroads cannot make special rates TO
commercial travellers
Kansas City, Mo, has been made a re
serve city under the provisions of the act
passed 10y the last congress
The trial OF John Aren sdorf for the muir
der of Rev. Geo. G.. Haddock of Sioux
City, Iowa is now in progress
Hon. Samuel II. Treat judge of the
United States district court for the south
ern district of Illinois is dead.
General Master NORMAN Powdery has
issued an order prohibiting political as
The Whitaker Quaker church at Buffalo,
Kansas, was blown TO atoms by great
powder explosion the other day
1t is expected that six or eight Michigan
companies will participate in the national
drill in Washing ton in May next.
The Jackson family. consisting of father
mother, and two children, were drowned
by the floods at Painted Woods Dakota.
President Cleveland has sent a contribu-
ton for the fund being raj ed for the es
Establishment of hospital at Monrovia'
Liberia
The executive board Of the Irish Nation
al League of America, has Issued an APP
peal 10 the American people in behalf Of
suffering Erin
Mrs. Harriet A. Moore gets So, 90
breach of promise verdict at Redwood
City, Cal. "a nst Nose, Hopkins, the Cali
fornil millionaire.
Five person, were rowing on Lake Hall,
five mile, north Of Tallahassee Fla, the
other day when the boat suddenly capsized
and four drowned
Andrew Brown, a colored man OF Mon
tezuma, Iowa, who whipped his six-year
old boy TO death has been sentenced TO 10
years imprisonment
The Mount We nln bridge company OF
Mount Vernon { h.o las been awarded the
contract for con -tructing thu new acque-
duct across the Potomac, at So0,905.
Ex-Vice President William A. Wheeler's
DAYS are numbered His physicians state
that he may not survive the winter, and
his death will be no unexpected event.
The court of pardons in Trenton y. j.,
has committed the sentence of Janitor
Titus, who wa, 10 be hanged for the muir
der of Title Smith, TO imprisonment for
life.
Miles D. Darlington, one Of the most
prominent aud Oldest business men of To-
ledo, member of the produce exchange,
died suddenly the other day in Marseilles,
France
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, the well
known lecturer, and sister OF Henry Ward
Beecher, says that any statement that She
and her ilu triou, brother were not on
good terms is false
Harkin Houck aged "a, died in Decatur
Iii, while his wife's funeral wa, in prog
ress, and the funeral was postponed until
the next day, when they were buried TO
gether.
Janitor Titus who was 10 have been
hanged at Trenton, y. J. for the murder Of
Title Smith. but whose sentence has
been committed TO imprisonment for
life, has made confe sion.
Mrs Krettchner of Bridgeport, Conn,
recently gave birth 10 child which has
an elephant head and short trunk. She
visited ageria last winter, and wa
frightened 10y the elephant
John a. Logan, ir.. son Of the late Gen.
Logan, was married on the 22d inst, to Miss
Edith Andrews Of Youngstown, Ohio.
Among the wedding presents was a chez.
for S500)O from the brides fatar
r. b. Mckee is the name of a Bohemian
oat agent who has been doing business in
Indiana He will re t for two years how
ever having been sentenced TO the North
ern prison for that length of time
The commissioner Of pensions states
that 2s7l3 applications are now before
his office for ad udi alton. Claims are be-
ing filed at the rate of 5000 week, and
the final adjudicatons number about 3
500.
Lieut. A. s. Whitewater OF Detroit has
been chosen to represent the United States
at the Astronomical congress TO be held in
Paris April rs He is the only one who will
represent tie United States at the Paris
congress.
Mrs. Cleveland unveiled a portrait Of Mrs.
Dolly Madison the other night. The oc
casion was a charitable entertainment in
aid of Washington city orphan asylum.
Mrs. Madison was one Of the six founders of
theinstituton.
The Pennsylvania board Of pardons has
refused rehearing in the case Of Milton
Weston, Chicago capitalist NOW under
going Imprisonment in the Riverside Peni-
Tertiary for completely in the Murrays
vile gas well riots
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ended March ~
was S4O6, s03 during the corresponding
period Of last year Sll6,45). The ship
ments OF fractional silver coin since March
l amounted TO S233.03S.
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